Affordable Care Act Scene 2 - Insurance Premiums

catahoula
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:14:15 +0000

Jonathan Gruber also said this:

What’s important to remember politically about this is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits—but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill.

He’s billed as an architect of this mess. Add in Johnathan Cohn, who’s supposedly a smart guy who was plugged into reporting on the issue, talking about the short-sightedness of a state opting out of an exchange, and the argument this is anything like a typo sort of collapses.

Doesn’t seem to be any real problem here at all. If the Supreme court rules that the IRS doesn’t get to do the clarifying of after the fact intent, then we can expect Congress to step right up and fix it.

No?